Tour de France gift ideas! We’ve been really enjoying all the action over the last few weeks – especially the fantastic start here in the UK, what a turn out, we are so pleased that so many people got into the spirit of the tour! The media hype in the UK may have died down now but we know there are still plenty of super fans of Le Tour watching who will appreciate these fun gift ideas!
We regularly feature unique gift ideas for cyclists on this blog, not the mass produced kind made in Taiwan, but some beautiful products created by artists and designers.
Here’s our round up of gifts that celebrate the fantastic spirit of Le Tour!
This beautiful ‘Peleton’ print shows all the place names of each stage of the Tour de France 2014 from the start in Yorkshire to the finish in Paris, it is printed over an antique background map of Paris. There are 198 in this print available, one for each rider that began the tour… which rider will your print represent?
Paul Churchill from Winchester paints little plastic figurines of cyclists to celebrate the Tour de France – you can have any cyclist on the tour – he’s sold hundereds of them! These three of course represent the winners Yellow Jersey (General Classification Winner) Polka Dot Jersey (Mountains Classification Winner)Green Jersey (Points/Sprint Classification Winner) – see his shop here
Fun set of chalks inspired by the tradition of chalking inspirational messages on the road for the Tour de France riders. Comes complete with a 16 page booklet of quotes from the peloton such as ‘I Race To Win Not To Please People’.
2014 Tour de France Organic Cotton Tea-Towel – the perfect gift for a cyclists! You may not be King of the Mountains but you can be King of the Kitchen! – King of the Kitchen Spotty Tea Towel
This is very cute and perfect for a cycling mad parent – a “Future Maillot Juane” t-shirt for a child from age 3 up to 13.